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The Great Annual Beach Clean-up

Sierra Quadra’s annual Earth Day event is a Beach Clean-up. Families, businesses and individuals collect garbage from beaches throughout April, and the whole community gathers for a clean-up finale to fill the trucks and celebrate. All ages come out to help, and local businesses donate trucks and muscle power.

Sierra Quadra’s annual Earth Day event is a Beach Clean-up. Families, businesses and individuals collect garbage from beaches throughout April, and the whole community gathers for a clean-up finale to fill the trucks and celebrate. All ages come out to help, and local businesses donate trucks and muscle power.

Every year, we drag out piles of plastic, styrofoam, fish/oyster farm trays, ropes and tires. We have fun too - Sierra Quadra members bring great food and refreshments.

Thanks to our collective efforts, huge amounts of discarded material that had washed up on our beaches are moved away to safe storage. Not only do our efforts beautify our Island but we are now learning that plastics — the majority of this detritus — break down into chemicals (bisphenol A and phthalates) that mimic hormones and compromise the health of both ourselves and the marine ecosystem.

Sierra Quadra is pround to present "Bidder 70", a film about student environmentalist Tim DeChristopher who posed as a bidder to monkey-wrench George Bush's fraudulent Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas Lease Auction.

On October 17 we turn the stage over to Mary Jane Birch, founder of the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society in Courtenay. For nearly two decades MARS has been rehabilitating native bird species and rescue mammals from wildlife centres across BC.

Nature-lovers rejoice! As of March 2014, Vancouver Islanders have a new park in our back yard. Unofficially known as the Heart of Quadra Parks, it comprises nearly 400 hectares of forest on the northern tip of Quadra Island, and connects two existing marine parks – Octopus Island and Small Inlet.